Born on this day – Lead Belly:

Lead Belly

Blues singer

Guitarist

January 20, 1888 – December 6, 1949

Born on this day – Jay McShann:

Jay McShann

Blues singer

Pianist

Composer

Bandleader

January 12, 1916 – December 7, 2006

Credits:

Albums:

A Tribute to Fats Waller (1978); After Hours (1982); Airmail Special (1994); Al Casey, Jumpin' with Al (1974); Axel Zwingenberger, Swing the Boogie! (1996); Best of Friends with Al Casey (1982); Blowin' in from K.C. with Joe Thomas (1983); Blue Pianos with Axel Zwingenberger (1991); Claude Williams, Fiddler's Dream (1977); Cold Strange (1977); Confessin' the Blues (1970); Crazy Legs & Friday Strut with Buddy Tate (1977); Duke Robillard, The Acoustic Blues & Roots of (2015); Early Bird with Charlie Parker (1973); Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Kidney Stew is Fine (1969); Goin' to Kansas City Blues (1957); Goin' to Kansas City with Duke Robillard (2003); Going to Kansas City (1972); Helen Humes, Helen Comes Back (1973); Helen Humes, On the Sunny Side of the Street (1975); Hootie Blues (2006); Hootie! (2000); Hootie's Jumpin' Blues with Duke Robillard (1997); Jackie Washington, Keeping Out of Mischief (1995); Jim Galloway, Kansas City Nights (1993); Jim Galloway, Thou Swell (1981); Jimmy Witherspoon & Jay McShann (1992); Julia Lee, Tonight's the Night (1982); Jumpin' the Blues with Milt Buckner (1972); Just a Lucky So and So (1984); Just Got Lucky (1993); Kansas City Hustle (1978); Kansas City Joys with Buddy Tate, Paul Quinichette (1976); Kansas City Memories (1955); Kansas City Memories (1973); Kansas City On My Mind (1977); Last of the Whorehouse Piano Players with Ralph Sutton (1980); Last of the Whorehouse Piano Players with Ralph Sutton (1989); Live in France Vol. 2 with Eddie Cleanhead Vinson (1984); McShann's Piano (1967); More Stuff (1985); My Baby with the Black Dress On (1998); Paris All-Star Blues: A Tribute to Charlie Parker (1991); Piano Playhouse (1996); Pressure Cooker (1985); Roll 'em (1987); Saturday Night Function with the Sackville All-Stars (1981); Slim Gaillard, Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere! (1983); Some Blues (1993); Still Jumpin' the Blues with Duke Robillard, Maria Muldaur (1999); Stride Piano Summit with Dick Hyman, Ralph Sutton (1991); Swingmatism with Don Thompson, Archie Alleyne (1994); T-Bone Walker, Feelin' the Blues (1999); The Band That Jumps the Blues! (1973); The Big Apple Bash (1979); The Early Bird Charlie Parker (1941–1943) (1982); The Last of the Blue Devils (1978); The Man from Muskogee with Claude Williams (1980); The Missouri Connection with John Hicks (1993); Tiny Grimes, Some Groovy Fours (1996); Tiny Grimes, Tiny Grimes (1970); Tuxedo Junction with Don Thompson (1980); Vine Street Boogie (1974); Walter Brown, Confessin' the Blues (1981); What a Wonderful World (1999).

Songs:

After Hours; Ain't Nobody's Business; Blue Devil Jump; Cherokee; Come on Over to My House; Confessin' the Blues; Confessin’ the Blues; Dexter Blues; 'Fore Day Rider; Georgia on My Mind; Get Me on Your Mind; Going To Kansas City; Hands Off; Hold'em Hootie; Hootie Blues; Hot Biscuits; Jumpin' at the Woodside; Just for You; Let It Be Me; McShann's Boogie-Blues; Moten Swing; Mr. Cleanhead Blues; My Chile; Red River Blues; Roll'em; Sepian Bounce; Swingmatism; T'Aint Nobody's Bizness; The Duke and the Brute; Vine Street Boogie; What a Wonderful World; When I Grow Too Old to Dream.

Movies and television:

American Horror Story (2014); American Masters (1989); American Splendor (2003); Better Call Saul (2020); Charlie Parker, Bird Songs (2022); Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way (2010); Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall (1997); Hanging Up (2000); Independent Lens (2005); Jazz (2001); Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (1969–1970); Lovecraft Country (2020); Married Life (2007); Solo Flight: The Genius of Charlie Christian (1992); The Blues (2003); The Last of the Blue Devils (1979); Vine Street Blues (1943).

Born on this day – Mississippi Fred McDowell:

Mississippi Fred McDowell

Blues singer

Songwriter

Guitarist

January 12, 1904 – July 3, 1972

Credits:

Albums:

61 Highway Blues (2011); A Dose Of Double Dynamite (2006); ABC Of The Blues Vol 33 (2010); Amazing Grace & My Home Is in the Delta (2013); Amazing Grace (1966); Ann Arbor, 1971 (Live) (2021); Best Live Country Blues (2022); Blues Masters: Mississippi Fred McDowell (1969); Come and Found You Gone: The Bill Ferris Recordings (2010); Downhome Blues, Vol. 1 (2009); Eight Years Ramblin' (1972); Fred Mcdowell (2014); Fred McDowell, Vol. 2 (1966); Going Down to the River - Mississippi Fred McDowell 1959 (2020); Heritage Of The Blues: Mississippi Fred McDowell (2003); I Do Not Play No Rock 'n' Roll (1969); Jesus On The Mainline (2023); Les pionniers du Blues, Vol. 15 : Mississippi Fred McDowell (2019); Levee Camp Blues (1980); Live at the Gaslight: Set One (2000); Live at the Gaslight: Set Two (2000); Live in New York (1972); Long Way From Home (1966); Long Way From Home: The Blues of Fred McDowell (1990); Mama Says I'm Crazy (2002); Mighty Mississippi (Rerecorded) (2009); Mississippi Delta Blues (1964); Mississippi Fred McDowell (1995); Mississippi Fred McDowell in London (Volume Two) (1970); Mojo Hand: Previously Unreleased (2022); Ole Miss Blues (2022);Portraits: The First Recordings (1997); Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On (2012); Shake 'Em on Down (2015); Shake 'Em On Down: Live In NYC (2016); Standing At The Burying Ground (1996); The Alan Lomax Recordings (2011); The Best of Mississippi Fred Mcdowell (2001); The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert (Live) (2024); The Essential Fred McDowell (Live) (2022); The First Recordings (1997); The Man from Como, Miss (2020); The Train I Ride (1993); This Ain't No Rock n' Roll (1995); Timeless Blues: Mississippi Fred McDowell (2011); You Ain't Gonna Worry My Life Anymore (2010); You Gotta Move (1989).

Songs:

61 Highway; Baby Please Don't Go; Como; Do My Baby Ever Think of Me; Everybody's Down on Me; Fred's Rambling Blues; Frisco Line; Get Right Church; Goin’ Down to the River; Going Away - Won't Be Gone Long; Going Down the River; Gravel Road Blues; Highway 61; I Heard Somebody Call; I Looked at the Sun; Jesus Is On The Main Line; John Henry; Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning; Levee Camp Blues; Meet Me Down in Froggy Bottom; My Baby; My Bottleneck; Red Cross Store Blues; Shake 'em on Down; That's Alright; What's the Matter Now?; When I Lay My Burden Down; When the Saints Go Marching In; Write Me a Few Lines; Write Me a Few of Your Lines; You Got to Move.

Born on this day – Tampa Red:

Tampa Red

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

January 8, 1903 – March 19, 1981

Credits:

Albums:

Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Tampa Red (2011); Blues Legends: Tampa Red (2012); Blues Masters Vol. 26 - Tampa Red (2009); Bottleneck Guitar 1928-1937 (1974); Chicago Moan (2012); Chicago Moan Blues - Tampa Red in the 20's, Vol. 1 (2020); Don't Jive Me (1962); Don't Tampa With The Blues (1961 / 2012); Don't Tampa With The Blues (Remastered 1992) (1960); Echoes from the South With Tampa Red & Big Maceo (2009); Essential Blues (2012); Friendless Gal Blues (2016); Guitar Blues (2011); His Blues (2016); It Hurts Me Too (1995, EP); Mother Of The Blues, CD E (2007); Music Making In Chicago 1928-1935 (2012); Presenting Tampa Red (1928); Roots Of The Blues - Tampa Red (2004); Single String Slide (2020); So Far So Good (2010); Spotlight on Tampa Red (2022); Sugar Mama Blues (2009); Tampa Red - Music History (2021); Tampa Red - Volume 1 (MP3 Album) (2012); Tampa Red - Volume 2 (MP3 Album) (2012); Tampa Red The Guitar Wizard (1994); Tampa Red Vol. 10 1938-1939 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 11 1939-1940 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 12 1941-1945 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 14 1949-1951 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 15 1951-1953 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 2 (1929) (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 3 (1929 - 1930) (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 4 (1930 - 1931) (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 5 (1931 - 1934) (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 7 1935-1936 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 8 1936-1937 (2005); Tampa Red Vol. 9 1937-1938 (2005); Tampa Red:1931-1946: Slide Guitar Wizard, Chicago (1997); The Bluebird Recordings 1934-1936 (1997); The Bluebird Recordings, 1936-1938 (1997); The Blues Collective - Tampa Red (2023); Through Train Blues (2012); Travel On (2018); Uncle Bud - Selected Recordings (2009); Voice of the Blues (2015); Worried Life (2018); You Can't Get That Stuff No More (2008).

Songs:

1950 Blues; Anna Lou Blues; Beedle Um Bum; Black Eye Blues; Boogie Woogie Dance; But I Forgive You; Crying Won’t Help You; Deep Moaning Blues: 1; Delta Woman Blues; Denver Blues; Detroit Blues; Don't You Lie to Me; Green and Lucky Blues; Grievin' and Worryin' Blues; I'm Gonna Get High; It Hurts Me Too; It's Tight Like That; Kingfish Blues; Let Me Play with Your Poodle; Love Her With a Feelin'; Love With a Feeling; Lula Mae; Mean Mistreater Blues; No Matter How She Done It; Seminole Blues; She's Love Crazy; Sugar Mama Blues No. 1; Things 'Bout Coming My Way; Western Bound Blues; When Things Go Wrong with You; You Can't Get That Stuff No More; You Missed a Good Man.

Movies and television:

Baseball (1994); Honeydripper (2007); In Session: Stevie Ray Vaughan/Albert King (1983); Last Man Standing (1996); Music and Lyrics (2007); Tales from the Loop (2020); The Rose (1979).

Born on this day – Edith North Johnson:

Edith North Johnson

Blues singer

Pianist

Songwriter

January 2, 1903 – February 28, 1988

Credits:

Albums:

Barrelhouse Piano & Classic Blues (1984); The Blues in St. Louis, Vol. 2: Henry Brown and Edith Johnson: Barrelhouse Piano and Classic Blues (1984); Voice Throwin' Blues (2022).

Songs:

Can't Make Another Day; Drive My Baby Slow; Eight Hour Woman; Good Chib Blues; Honey Dripper Blues; Honey Dripper Blues: No. 2; Little Drops of Water; Lovin That Man; Lovin' That Man; Lovin’ That Man Blues; Nickel's Worth of Liver Blues: No. 2; Nickel's Worth Of River Blues; Nickle's Worth of Liver Blues; That's My Man; You Ain't No Good Blues; You Know That Ain't Right.

Born on this day – J. D. Short:

J. D. Short

Blues singer

Guitarist

Harmonicist

December 26, 1902 – October 21, 1962

Credits:

Albums:

Blues from the Mississippi Delta, with Son House (1963); Legacy of the Blues Vol. 8 (1973); Stavin' Chain Blues, with Big Joe Williams (1961).

Television:

The Blues (1962).

Born on this day – Lil Green:

Lil Green

Blues singer

Songwriter

December 22, 1901 – April 14, 1954

Credits:

Albums:

1940-1941 (2008); 1942-1946 (2008); 1947-1951 (2008); Blues & Rhythm Series: The Chronological Lil Green 1940-1941 (2003); Give Your Mama One Smile (2023); Greens Got The Blues (2020); Instinctively the Blues - Lil Green (2020); Lil Green (2016); Love In The Dark (2023); No Stranger to Trouble (2015); Romance In The Dark (1971); Romance In The Dark (Original Recordings 1940 - 1944) (2015); The Blues Collective - Lil Green (2023); The Blues Mama (2019); The Very Best Of (2010); Why Don't You Do Right? 1940-1942 (Remastered Historical Recordings) (2006).

Songs:

Aggravatin' Papa; Because I Love My Daddy So; Cherry Tree Blues; Country Boy Blues; Give your mama one smile; Hello Babe; How Can I Go On?; How Come You Do Me Like You Do; I Gotta Have It; I Have a Place to Go; I Want A Man; I Won't Sell My Love; If I'm a Fool; If You Want to Share Your Love; I'm going to start a racket; I'm Wasting My Time on You; Just Rockin'; Keep Your Hand on Your Heart; Knockin' Myself Out; Last Go Round Blues; Let's Be Friends; My Mellow Man; No, Baby, Nobody but You; Outside Of That; Romance in the Dark; Take Me Back To Little Rock; What Have I Done; What's The Matter With Love?; Why Don't You Do Right; Why Don'y You Do It Right; You're Just Full of Jive; You've Been A Good Old Wagon.

Born on this day – B.K. Turner:

B.K. Turner

Blues singer

Guitarist

December 21, 1905 – November 7, 1972

Credits:

Albums:

I'm the Boss Card in Your Hand (compilation, Arhoolie, 1992); The Black Ace: BK Turner and His Steel Guitar (studio album, Arhoolie, 1960).

Songs:

Beer Drinkin`Woman; Black Ace; Evil Woman; Hitch Hiking Woman; I Am the Black Ace; Interview; Your Legs Too Little.

Born on this day – Peetie Wheatstraw:

Peetie Wheatstraw

Blues singer

Guitarist

Pianist

December 21, 1902 – December 21, 1941

Credits:

Songs:

Ain’t It a Pity and a Shame; Blues At My Door; C and A Blues; Chicago Mill Blues; Crazy With the Blues; Devil’s Son‐In‐Law; Don’t Feel Welcome Blues; Drinking Man Blues; Four O'Clock in the Morning; Gangster Blues; Gangster’s Blues; Good Whiskey Blues; Hog-Love Blues; I'm A Little Piece Of Leather; Long Time Ago Blues; Midnight Blues; More Good Whiskey Blues; Packin' Up Blues; Pete Wheatstraw; Police Station Blues; Saturday Night Blues; Shack Bully Stomp; Six Weeks Old Blues; So Long Blues; Strange Man Blues; Suicide Blues; Sweet Home Blues; Tennessee Peaches Blues; The Break I'm Getting'; The Rising Sun Blues; Working on the Project; You Can't Stop Me from Drinking.

Albums:

ABC Of The Blues Vol 48 (2010); Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Peetie Wheatstraw (2012); Blues Legend 1934-1941 (2011); Blues Legends: Peetie Wheatstraw (2014); Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 1: 1930-1932 (date?); Crazy With The Blues (2007); Macho Persona (2015); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 1 1930-1932 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 2 1934-1935 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 3 1935-1936 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 4 1936-1937 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 5 1937-1938 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 6 1938-1940 (2005); Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 7 1940-1941 (2005); Saint Louis - Chicago - New York 1931-1941 (The Blues) (1996); This Is the Blues, Vol. 8 (Mono Version) (1962, EP).

Recommended reading:

The Devil's son-in-law: The story of Peetie Wheatstraw and his songs

By Paul Garon.

Paperback.

Published 1971.

Published by Studio Vista.

ISBN 13: 9780289702116

ISBN 10: 0289702119

ASIN: 0289702119

Description:

Blue-singer, songwriter, piano and guitar player, William Bunch (1902-1941) was well-known as Peetie Wheatstraw, the Devil's Son-in-Law and the High Sheriff from Hell. Long recognized by connoisseurs as one of the most influential blues people of all time, his life and work are little known to the broad public. Blues scholar Paul Garon's important and abundantly illustrated study - drawing on his own extensive interviews with Wheatstraw's relatives, and fellow musicians - brings the exciting Whatstraw saga to life at last. With insight and imagination, Garon explores Peetie Wheatstraw's crucial role not only in blues history, but also in African American urban mythology, and - via a penetrating analysis of song lyrics - his appreciable contributions to blues poetry and to vernacular surrealism. Originally published in the UK in 1971, this substantially revised and expanded edition includes a mass of new information and images, as well as an updated bibliography, discography and index. Also included is a 24-track CD portraying Peetie at his best, with a bonus track by Harmon Ray, the previously unissued Xmas Blues!

Born on this day – Lonnie Brooks:

Lonnie Brooks

Blues singer

Guitarist

Writer

December 18, 1933 – April 1, 2017

Born on this day – Lucille Hegamin:

Lucille Hegamin

Blues singer

November 29, 1894 – March 1, 1970

Born on this day – Whistlin' Alex Moore:

Whistlin' Alex Moore

Blues singer

Pianist

Whistler

November 22, 1899 – January 20, 1989

Credits:

Albums:

Finding My Way (2015); From North Dallas to the East Side (1994); In Europe (1970); Miracle Working God (2020); Whistlin' Alex Moore (1929-1951) (2005); Whistling Alexander Moore (1961); Wiggle Tail: Original, Eccentric, Legendary and Lascivious Piano Playing and Stories (1988).

Songs:

Across The Atlantic Ocean; Alex's Blues; Alex's Boogie; Alex's Rag; Alex's Wild Blues; Black Eyed Peas and Hog Jowls; Blue Bloomer Blues; Boogie In The Barrel; Boogiein' in Strassburg; Bull Con Blues; Chock House Boogie; Frisky Gal; Going Back to Foggy Bottom; Hard Hearted Woman; Heart Wrecked Blues; I Want My Mary; Ice Pick Blues; If I Lose You Woman; It Wouldn't Be So Hard; July Boogie; Lillie Mae Boogie; Miss No-Good Weed; New Miss No-Good Weed; Pretty Woman with a Sack Dress On; Rock and Roll Bed; Rubber Tired Hack; Sometime I Feel Worried; They May Not Be My Toes; West Texas Woman; Whistling Alex Moore's Blues; You Got Me Dissatisfied; You Say I'm a Bad Feller.

Born on this day – Mozelle Alderson:

Mozelle Alderson

Blues singer

November 20, 1904 – February 15, 1994

Credits:

Songs:

Mobile Central Blues; Mozelle Blues; Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat; Room Rent Blues; Sobbin' The Blues; State Street Special; Tall Man Blues; Tight Whoopee.

Born on this day – Bukka White:

Bukka White

Blues singer

Guitarist

November 12, 1900 – February 26, 1977

Credits:

Songs:

Aberdeen Mississippi Blues; Parchman Farm Blues; Fixin' To Die Blues; Special Stream Line; Poor Boy Long Ways From Home; Black Train Blues; Bukka's Jitterbug Swing; Bald Eagle Train; High Fever Blues; District Attorney Blues; The Panama Limited; Sugar Hill; Pinebluff, Arkansas; I Am the Heavenly Way; Sic 'Em Dogs On; Baby Please Don't Go; Po' Boy; The New Frisco Train; My Baby; Good Gin Blues; Streamline Special; Old Lady; Jitterbug Swing; New Orleans Streamline; Army Blues; Mama Don't Allow; Mixed Water; Aberdeen Blues; Black Cat Bone Blues; Big Daddy; Corinna, Corinna; Drunken Leroy Blues; Cryin' Holy Unto the Lord; Big Daddy.

Albums:

Mississippi Blues (1963); Sky Songs (1990); Big Daddy (1974); Baton Rouge Mosby Street (1972); 1963 Isn't 1962 (1994); Presenting Bukka White (1931); The Atlanta Special (2010); Aberdeen, Mississippi Blues (Live in Germany) (2019); Introducing Bukka White (2014); Blues Legend of the Century (2012); Patchman Farm Blues (date?); Beyond Patina Jazz Masters: Bukka White (2011); High Fever (2018); Big Boat up the River (2022); Bukka White (Hd Remastered Edition) (2018); Parchman Farm (1970); The Complete Bukka White (1969); Memphis Hot Shots (1969); Shake 'em On (2023); Bukka White Blues (2019); Contemporary Guitar: Spring ’67 (1967); Saga Blues: Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (2007); The Panama Ltd. (2000); Live, Cafe Au Go Go, 1965 (2014); The Vintage Recordings 1930 - 1940 "Aberdeeen Mississippi Blues" (2003); The Complete Sessions 1930-1940 (1990); Bukka's Jitterbug Swing (2013); Party! At Home (2001); Special Streamline (2018); Fixin' to Die (2004); Shake 'Em On Down (1994); Blues At Home 7 (2013); The New Frisco Train (2018); Parchman Farm Blues (2015); Pinebluff Arkansas (2014); Good Gin Blues (1899); Missipi blues giant (2006); The Old Wild Shadow (2015); Tonight in Time (2015); Instinctively the Blues - Bukka White (2020); Blues Heatwave - Bukka White's 1940s Summer Grooves (2023); Two Blues Icons (2014); Two of a Kind: Big Bill Broonzy & Bukka White (2022); The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (1968); Aberdeen Mississippi Blues (2015); Behind the Mule (2015).

Movies and television:

American Masters (2005); B.B. King: The Life of Riley (2012); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Deadwood (2004); Death of a Champion, Birth of a Rule: The Tony Marino Story (2016); Devil Got My Woman: Blues at Newport 1966 (1996); Doug MacLeod: Captured Alive (2006); En remontant le Mississippi (1973); From the Vaults (2018); Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007); Life (1999); Memphis '69 (2019); Mississippi Drug War Blues: The Case of Cory Maye (2008); On the Road (2012); One Last Chance (2004); Reacher (2022); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969 - Volume 3 (2004); The Blues Under the Skin (1973); The Devil's Music (1979); The Howlin' Wolf Story (2003); Two Trains Runnin' (2016).

Born on this day – Sippie Wallace:

Sippie Wallace

Blues singer

Pianist

Songwriter

November 1, 1898 – November 1, 1986

Credits:

Music:

A Man for Every Day of the Week (1926); Advice Blues (1925); Baby I Can't Use You No More (1924); Bedroom Blues (1926); Being Down Don't Worry Me (1925); Caldonia Blues (1924); Can Anybody Take Sweet Mama's Place? (1924); Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, vol. 1, 1923–1925; vol. 2, 1925–1945 (1995); Dead Drunk Blues (1927); Devil Dance Blues (1925); Every Dog Has His Day (1925); Have You Ever Been Down (1927); He's the Cause of Me Being Blue (1924); I Feel Good (1926); I Must Have It (1925); I'm a Mighty Tight Woman (1926); I'm Leaving You (1925); I'm So Glad I'm Brownskin (1924); I'm Sorry for It Now (1925); I've Stopped My Man (1924); Jack of Diamond Blues (1926); Jealous Woman Like Me (1926); Kitchen Blues (1926); Lazy Man Blues (1927); Leaving Me, Daddy Is Hard to Do (1924); Let My Man Alone Blues (1924); Mail Train Blues (1926); Mama's Gone Goodbye (1924); Morning Dove Blues (1925); Murder's Gonna Be My Crime (1925); Off and On Blues (1924); Parlor Social Deluxe (1925); Section Hand Blues (1925); Shorty George Blues (1923); Sings the Blues (1966); Sippie (1982); Sippie Wallace and Victoria Spivey (1970); Special Delivery Blues (1926); Stranger's Blues (1924); Sud Busting Blues (1924); Suitcase Blues (1925); The Flood Blues (1927); The Man I Love (1925); Trouble Evrywhere I Roam (1924); Underworld Blues (1924); Up the Country Blues (1923); Walkin Talkin Blues (1924); Wicked Monday Morning Blues (1924); Women Be Wise (1966).

Movies and television:

Bessie (2015); Blues Alive: Recorded Live at the Capitol Theatre (1983); Evening of AnExchange (1972); Jammin' with the Blues Greats (1982); Late Night with David Letterman (1982); Nothing But the Blues (1966); Nothing But the Blues: Blues Scene (1967); Sippie (1983); The David Letterman Show (1980); The Reaping (2007); Uvolnete se, prosím (2005).

Born on this day – Henry Townsend:

Henry Townsend

Blues singer

Guitarist

Pianist

October 27, 1909 – September 24, 2006

Credits:

Albums:

Blues Piano and Guitar (2019); Cairo Blues (1973); Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas (2007); More Devil's Music (2006); Mule / Expanded Edition (1980); Mule's Blues (2015); My Story (2001); St. Louis Blues Ace (1996); The 88 Blues (1998); The Blues in St. Louis, Vol. 3: Henry Townsend (1984); The Real St. Louis Blues (2001).

Movies and television:

10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads (2007); Blues Like Showers of Rain (1970); Blues Like Showers of Rain / Legends of Country Blues Guitar (1994); Blues Story (2003); Thats the Way I Do It (1986); The Devil's Music (1979).

Born on this day – Boogie Woogie Red:

Boogie Woogie Red

Blues singer

Pianist

Songwriter

October 18, 1925 – July 2, 1992

Credits:

Albums:

Live at the Blind Pig (1974); Red Hot (1977).

Songs:

After Hours; Blues for My Baby; Bumble Bee Blues; Got to Find My Baby; Mean Ol' Frisco; Old Time Shuffle; Prison Bound; Red's Boogie; Red's Rhumba; Red's Rumba; Relaxin; Showtime; Sisterly Love; Step Down on It; Take Five; The Reefer Song; Viper Song; When I Was Young; You Put a Spell on Me.

Born on this day – Johnny Temple:

Johnny Temple

Blues singer

Guitarist

October 18, 1906 – November 22, 1968

Credits:

Albums:

Johnnie Temple 1935-1940: From Mississippi to Chicago (The Blues) (1997); Johnnie Temple Vol. 2 1938-1940 (2005); Johnnie Temple Vol. 3 1940-1949 (2005); Johnny Temple's Believe My Sins Have Found Me Out (2006); Lead Pencil Blues (2015); Presenting Johnnie Temple (1935); Vol. 1 1935-1938 (2005).

Songs:

Beale Street Sheik; Between Midnight and Dawn; Big Boat Whistle; Big Leg Woman; Big Woman Blues; County Jail Blues; East Saint Louis Blues; Every Dog Must Have His Day; Fare You Well; Gimme Some of That Yum Yum Yum; Gonna Ride 74; Hoodoo Women; I Believe I'll Go Downtown Again; Jacksonville Blues; Lead Pencil Blues; Louise Louise Blues; Mama's Bad Luck Child; Mean Baby Blues; New Louise Louise Blues; New Vicksburg Blues; Olds "98" Blues; Peeping Through The Keyhole; Pimple Blues; Rhythm Mama; Snapping Cat; So Lonely And Blue; Something in the Moon That Gives Me a Thrill; Stavin' Chain; The Evil Devil Blues; What Is It That Smells Like Gravy?; Yum, Yum, Yum.

Born on this day – Big Joe Williams:

Big Joe Williams

Blues singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982

Credits:

Songs:

49 Highway Blues; Ain't Nothin' Like Whiskey; Baby Please Don't Go; Big Road Blues; Black Gal; Blues for Gamblers; Bye, Bye, Blues; Crawlin' King Snake; Drop Down Mama; First Meeting; Flour Dough Blues; Hand Me Down My Old Walking; Highway 49; House Lady Blues; I May Be Wrong; I Wanna Die Easy When I Die; If You Steal My Chickens, You Can't Make 'Em Lay; Jivin' Woman; Juanita; King Biscuit Stomp; Little Leg Woman; Mellow Apples; Motherless Children; My Grey Pony; P Vine Blues; Ramblin' On My Mind; She Left Me A Mule To Ride; Sloppy Drunk Blues; Sugar Mama; Tell Me Mama; Vitamin A; Wimmin From Coast To Coast.

Albums:

An American Singer, Songwriter, Blues Master, Volume 2 (2021); An American Singer, Songwriter, Blues Master, Volume 4; The Complete Singles 1935-1941 (2021); An American Singer, Songwriter, Blues Master, Volume 5; The Complete Singles 1942-1960 (2021); Baby Please Don't Go (2019); Back To The Country (1964); Back to the Roots (2023); Big Joe Williams (1964); Big Joe Williams at Folk City (1963); Big Joe Williams King Of The Delta Blues (2023); Blues Bash (1973); Blues for 9 Strings; Blues Masters Vol. 6 - Big Joe Williams (2009); Chewred Up Grass (2019); Chicago ‘63 (2023); Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, Vol. 2 (1945-1949) (1991); Delta Blues Live (2019); Down South Summit Meetin' (1960); Fantastic Music for Christmas (All the Greatest Tracks) (2016); Four Classic Albums (Piney Wood Blues / Tough Times / Blues on Highway 49 / Mississippi's Big Joe Williams and His Nine String Guitar) (Digitally Remastered) (2021); Hand Me Down My Old Walking Stick (1969); Hell Bound and Heaven Sent Blues (1968); Highway 49 (2018); I Got Wild (2003); Instinctively the Blues - Big Joe Williams (2020); Just the Blues, 1958-1961, (24 Successes) (Blues Left Texas) (2018); Malvina My Sweet Woman (1974); Meet Me Around the Corner (Nothing But the Blues) (2012); Nine Strings (2020); No More Whiskey (1998); Piney Wood Blues (1997); Piney Woods Blues (1958); Po' Joe (1999); Studio Blues (1964); The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins (1969); The Blues Collection: Big Joe Williams, Baby Please Don't Go (1994); The Blues Collective - Big Joe Williams (2023); The Essential Big Joe Williams (1945-1961), Vol. 1 (2020); The Essential Big Joe Williams (1945-1961), Vol. 2 (2020); The Original Ramblin' Bluesman 1945-1961; The Ultimate Jazz Archive 12 - Blues (2 Of 4) (2007); These Are My Blues (Live) (1998); Throw a Boogie Woogie; Watergate Blues (2000); Wild Cow Blues (2018).

Movies, television and video:

AC/DC: Baby, Please Don't Go (1976); American Masters (2005); Archer (2014); Blue Chips (1994); Blues Odyssey (2003); Count Basie at Carnegie Hall (1981); Countdown (1974); Drop Zone (1994); Focus (2015); Friday Night Football (2015); Good Mornin' Blues (1978); Good Morning, Vietnam (1987); Heart Condition (1990); Hollywood a Go Go (1965); I Am Not Your Negro (2016); Metal Evolution (2011); Nightmare Code (2014); Otis (2008); Out of Sight (1966); Passage to Mars (2016); Poor White Trash (2000); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (1995); She's Out of Control (1989); Shindig! (1965); Swing In (1968); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 - Volume 1 (2003); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 - Volume 2 (2003); The American Folk Blues Festivals: The British Tours 1963-1966 (2007); The Beach Boys (2024); The Bikeriders (2023); The Blues (1966); The Buttercup Project (2010); The Devil's Music (1979); The Instigators (2024); The Led Zeppelin Story (2004); The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2009); Treme (2011); Two Weeks to Live (2020); Wild at Heart (1990).

Born on this day – Victoria Spivey:

Victoria Spivey

Blues singer

Songwriter

October 15, 1906 – October 3, 1976